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The other was that of the wise and valorous Theodomir, which we have next to relate. Abdul-Aziz, Musa’s noble son, whose sad fate we have chronicled, had been given the control of Southern Spain, with his head-quarters in Seville. Here, after subduing the Comarca, he decided on an invasion of far-off Murcia, the garden-land of the south, a realm of tropic heat, yet richly fertile and productive.
Peter's Day. June 29 is kept even at Funchal by water-excursions; it is homage enough to pay a penny and to go round the ships. We anchored and screamed abominably off Santa Cruz, the capital of its 'comarca. The townlet lies on the left of a large ravine, whose upper bed contains the Madre d'Agoa, or water-reservoir.
The townlet, capital of the 'comarca, fronted by its little Alameda and a strip of beach upon which I should prefer to debark, shows a tall factory-chimney, noting the sugar-works of Wilhabram Bros. The guide-books mention iron pyrites and specular iron in small quantities behind Ponta do Sol.
In 1852, with the creation of the new province of the Amazons, it became a city; returned its members to the provincial parliament at Barra; had it assizes, its resident judges, and rose to be the chief town of the comarca or county.
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